Santa at the Symphony

Santa Claus (with a little help from TPR’s John Clare) made three appearances with the San Antonio Symphony this past weekend. It just wouldn’t be Christmas without Santa at the Symphony. My Christmas wish? I wish that every person who has enjoyed the San Antonio Symphony in 2010 will tell at least one friend about their experience. We can blog, tweet, take out ads in the Express-News and put up billboards with Sebastian Lang-Lessing’s photo, but ultimately it is word-of-mouth that makes any business a success. If you invite a friend to a concert, you are keeping the music alive for everyone in San Antonio. Merry Christmas!

Santa with violinists Long Zhou and Sayaka Okada

Santa and violist Lauren Magnus

Santa with Assistant Principal Clarinet Stephanie Key

The gift of music! The San Antonio Symphony is offering a special gift certificate just until December 23. For $50, you get a certificate worth $100 of subscription series tickets. You can redeem it for any Classics, Pops or Family concert in the 2010-2011 season. This Symphony season runs until June 3 and new music director Sebastian Lang-Lessing will be conducting 16 Classics concert from January to June. You could use this gift to get 50% off Dvorak’s New World Symphony, the January Cirque de la Symphonie pops concert, the Tchaikovsky Festival, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and much more. https://www.sasymphony.org/t_gift_certificate.php